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This plugin can be used to include in your journal any content that is published using an Atom/RSS feed. Feed items can be displayed on the journal homepage and/or in the sidebars.

For example:- Include blog postings in OJS from an external WordPress or Drupal install.- Include announcements in OJS from an external OCS install.- Include announcements and/or table of contents items in OJS sidebars from OJS-generated feeds (via announcementFeed and webFeed plugins).

There are two versions of this plugin, depending on your OJS install (either 2.2.x or 2.3+).

Please find some attached screenshots below.

Author: Michael FelczakSoftware: OJSVersions: 2.2+Multilingual: yes

External Feed Plugin Screenshot 1

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External Feed Plugin Screenshot 2

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Last edited by michael on Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:27 am, edited 2 times in total.

There are a few ways in which you can customize this plugin for your journal.

There's an included CSS file in the plugin directory that lists the styles introduced by the plugin which you can use as a basis for controlling display.

gerbenzaagsma wrote: We find the teasers too long and would prefer a simple list of headers or only a small teaser.

To remove the description, you would need to modify the displayHomepage function in ExternalFeedPlugin.inc.php. In particular, you could remove the call to $item->get_description(); and the surrounding HTML tags.

This plugin relies on an external library, SimplePie, to process RSS feeds. Future versions of the library will include the option to control description lengths and we can include this as an option in the plugin itself. If you'd like a workaround for the time being, please see this guide for more information.

Do you have any idea when an updated version of the plugin with the option included will be ready? We are going live only late March so I would not want to implement a workaround when the plugin is updated soon.